UW CSE’s Alvin Cheung wins Sprowls Award from MIT.
He works on statistical natural language processing, focusing on social media analysis, discourse, and latent variable models. Jacob was a Postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Illinois. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2008, winning the George M. Sprowls dissertation award.
I have received a variety of awards for my work, including an NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the NEC Award for Research in Computers and Communication, the Sprowls Doctoral Dissertation Award, the Best Student Paper Award at the Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC) in 2004, and the Best Paper Award at STOC 2011.
He has also been recognized with the Sprowls Award for Best Dissertation in Computer Science and the SIGCOMM Best Paper Award. Learn more about Hassanieh's award and the two honorable mentions presented by ACM this year.
Before Berkeley, Ludwig completed his PhD at MIT under the supervision of Piotr Indyk. Ludwig received a Google PhD fellowship, a Microsoft Simons fellowship, a best paper award at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), and the Sprowls dissertation award from MIT. More information.
His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Google. Dr. Eisenstein was a Postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Illinois. He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 2008, winning the George M. Sprowls dissertation award.
George M. Sprowls Award for Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science at MIT EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Mellon University in 1985 under Dana Scott, winning the 1986 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his thesis Full Abstraction and Semantic Equivalence.